Of Cannibals Quotes

#1. Theresa, remember - you've got nothing to lose. The worst that could possibly happen is that you fly home in a couple of days. That's all. You're not going on a quest to search for a tribe of cannibals. You're just going to find out if your curiosity was warranted.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. What can a man read in a library of cannibals?
Bloody books bound by bones in tissues' paper.

Stephan Attia

#3. When you're on your own as a youngster, you're fresh meat and there's a line of cannibals just waiting to fire up the grill.

Shane Kuhn

#4. If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries, fattened at the taxpayers' expense.

H.L. Mencken

#5. I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

#6. Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

Herman Melville

#7. I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.

Herman Melville

#8. The Wood did strange things to humans, especially humans who had a distant touch of the fae within. It turned them from ordinary people into mad hermits, cannibals who ate children thinking they were made of gingerbread, and people who swore they had been asleep for one hundred years.

Kate Danley

#9. The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.

Isabella Bird

#10. I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals
(Chapter 2)

Rick Riordan

#11. Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

Oscar Wilde

#12. We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?

Herman Melville

#13. No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.

Nick Harkaway

#14. We're all as bad as each other. All hungry little cannibals at our own cannibal party. So fuck the milk of human kindness and welcome to the abattoir!

Philip Ridley

#15. And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance.

Eugene O'Neill

#16. The galleys ... had been dirven onto the rocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had feared to land.

George R R Martin

#17. Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us - flesh and bone - only to be spewed out again in our own works.

Siri Hustvedt

#18. One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

Robertson Davies

#19. Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

Nicholas Sparks

#20. You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

Malcolm X

#21. Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.

Cameron Stracher

#22. If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.

John Gibson Paton

#23. I have negotiated with cannibals in foreign tongues and Arabian sea captains and French criminals. I have bartered with demons and angels! I am not about to let a country doctor take advantage of me.

Mark Beauregard

#24. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten
not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Ted Turner

#25. The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Dennis Weaver

#26. Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Francis Bacon

#27. what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?

Ocean Vuong

#28. Now we're going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why don't we rescue some orphaned kittens and put food out for stray puppies while we're at it?

Julie Kagawa

#29. Are Russian cannibals worse than the English? Of course. The English eat only the feet, the Russians the soul. "The soul is a mirage," I told Anna Alexandrovna, but she went on eating mine anyway.

Charles Simic

#30. Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state of mind, a curvilinear labyrinth.

J.G. Ballard

#31. The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.

Joyce Cary

#32. Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice ... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

Michel De Montaigne

#33. If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

Carl Whitaker

#34. I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

Antonia Fraser

#35. We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#36. [I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

Thomas Jefferson

#37. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#38. Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#39. The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant I try and I achieve.

Anthony Horowitz

#40. The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#41. Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.

Rick Riordan

#42. Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.

Hilary Mantel

#43. He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

Henry Miller

#44. I feel sorry for tribes that used to be cannibals but then stopped when the Christians came and inevitably ruined everything, because it would suck to be nostalgic for the comfort food of your childhood but then never have it again because now it's suddenly not cool to eat your dead uncle.

Jenny Lawson